How to Delete a Facebook account which is Impersonating you?

Internet spam is everywhere, you get quite a few spam emails every week and if you are active on social sites, you have seen so many spam profiles here and there.

Profile impersonification, however is a serious issue – some people can completely replicate your profile, steal photos from your albums and have the same information displayed on social sites e.g Facebook, Orkut, Myspace.

If you or any of your friends find someone impersonating a Facebook profile, here are the steps to ask Facebook to remove or block the spam profile:

Remove a Facebook Account Which is Impersonating You

1. First, note down the profile ID and the URL of the spam profile. This is required, because later you would want to check whether the same profile still exists or not.

2. Since you want Facebook to completely delete that profile, deleting the person from your friend list isn’t going to solve the problem. You have to report the profile as a spam profile and wait for some time till Facebook removes that person.

3. Open the profile in your browser, scroll down to the end of the page and click “Report/Block” this person.

4. This will open up a submission form where you can provide more information and report the profile as spam. Choose the “Report this person” checkbox and select “Fake profile” from the options drop down. Next, Choose the report type as “Impersonating me or someone else”

Next, enter the profile URL which is being impersonified. This means, you have to enter the profile URL of the person whose profile has been copied or whose images have been used.

Hit the submit button and you are done. An Administrator from Facebook will review your application and take action as a result of your report. You will not be notified whether any action has been taken to remove the profile, but you can enter the spam profile URL in the browser address bar and check whether it exists or not.

If you are redirected to the home page or get an error message, this means the profile has been successfully blocked and removed from Facebook.

someone is impersonating me in face book..shes destroying my name..she uses my real name and picture at the same time..pls help me how to delete that account.i already reported that account but until now it still exists..pls help

hi.my name is anju kataria from khanna( Punjab). someone has created a fake account ussing my name and profile picture’s, and may be he/she can missuse my profile,pic. i am frustrated with that account(anju_kataria2732@yahoo.com) plz help me out to remove that account thanks

Dear friends some one opened 2 fake profile please help me to delet this profile i dun know more about this in face book please help me big.I beg you please help me.he’s been running my life 4ever please help me.please report them as many times as you canhttp://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100003747949112

Someone created a PAGE with my name and profile picture. I and many of my friends reported it but the page is still up…it has been reported as spam, as abuse, but there is no way to report it as impersonation…this page posts on other pages as me…what can I do?????

Omg, this is nuts, I have a fake person posing as me in Arabic, and getting help is impossible. I can’t post URL of it in. Can’t copy and can’t submit Statements of Privacy, it’s frozen . Been trying for 2 days!!!!!

Omg, this is nuts, I have a fake person posing as me in Arabic, and getting help is impossible. I can’t post URL of it in. Can’t copy and can’t submit Statements of Privacy, it’s frozen . Been trying for 2 days!!!!!

Is there anybody who can help me from this situation? This is very very urgent…

A rouge has started impersonating me in a fake profile since March, 2012. Since I do not have any Facebook account of my own I didn’t know about at first; but later came to know from friends who use Facebook. This person has somehow got hold of my photos and all my personal details, and is defaming me by these means. He is pretending to be me and has added several friends.
I know almost nothing about Facebook. I tried to sort out things initially by finding some ‘report’ link in the Facebook Homepage. But that did not work. I googled and it returned me with almost no help as such. I was thus forced to make a GD with the police. However, even after reporting to the police, the account still exists and the friends number is increasing. All these I have kept track of logging through some of my friends’ accounts.

My questions are, precisely:

1.Can this account be closed at all?
2.Can I follow the procedures mentioned in this article by logging in through someone else’s account, as I don’t have a real account of my own?
3. Is there some tracking mechanism like hacking and cracking into the account and getting hold of the password so that I can close it down myself?
4. Can this person be sued if caught?
5. Are there any contact link to Facebook authorities to whom I report directly through email?
6. Is it advisable to open a real account of my own and publish the fact that the other is fake?

Please help. This person is making my life a hell. These criminals in the society should be given the strictest punishment so that they don’t even think about bossing into others’ lives and affairs.